Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak reacts to Peter Shurman predicting on radio that Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne would win a minority on June 12

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said he is focused on creating jobs, not a hundred different priorities that he says Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath have.

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PC Leader Tim Hudak, campaigning at Pacific Western Transportation in Mississauga on Wednesday, said businesses looking to locate in Ontario are turned off by high electricity costs and a province mired in debt‎.

His comment Wednesday on the campaign trail was partly in response to former Tory MPP Peter Shurman predicting on radio that Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne would win a minority on June 12.

“The other two leaders are going to run a personality contest. They are going to promise you all kinds of things they know in they can't afford,” he said in Mississauga where the Tories picked up the campaign bus for reporters.

“That's ‎not me. I am the guy with the turnaround plan to get Ontario working again.”

“I’m looking for support across the political spectrum,” Wynne said Wednesday.

“It’s very interesting that Peter Shurman, who has been a Conservative MPP, is looking at our plan, he’s seeing the substance, and he says that we are . . . the best-positioned to make the right decisions for the people of Ontario,” she said.

Meanwhile, Shurman confirmed that he said that a minority is likely and “that Wynne is likely because she is ‘the best sales person’ in what is a popularity contest.‎”

Shurman quit the Tory caucus last year after a public dispute with Hudak over Shurman filing for expenses that the Tory leader said he was not entitled to.

Hudak said he is focused on creating jobs, not a hundred different priorities that he says Wynne and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath have.

“I have one priority and that's a million new jobs,” he said.

Hudak said businesses looking to locate in Ontario are turned off by high electricity costs and a provincial government mired in debt‎.

“No wonder they are investing in the states or other provinces,” he said.

‎With files from Robert Benzie

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